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I thought (but could be wrong) that that information was available daily.blythburgh wrote: ↑Mon Apr 27 2020 8:33amWe get told daily how many people have died in hospital from the virus. I would like to know how many people have gone into hospital with the virus each day. It takes a while for a person to go into hospital to sadly dying.
So an increase or a decrease in the number of people admitted to hospital would surely be a better indication of how well we are or are not doing in beating the virus by things like washing hands, social distancing and self isolating.
The information is available - the daily figures for new infections relate to those admitted to hospital and testing positive. They are not necessarily 100% accurate due to reporting cutoffs and bottlenecks at weekends, etc., but overall they are the best measure we can get. The issue is that this figure does not reflect new infections in the community.... because we simply don't know, some figures are ignored and some are just not available due to lack of testing. Likewise the "death" figures are subtly different. The daily figures are for those dying of hospital having contracted the virus - but it is the weekly figure relating to death certificates that says whether the death was primarily caused by the virus, as opposed to other causes.Richard Frost wrote: ↑Mon Apr 27 2020 9:16amI thought (but could be wrong) that that information was available daily.blythburgh wrote: ↑Mon Apr 27 2020 8:33amWe get told daily how many people have died in hospital from the virus. I would like to know how many people have gone into hospital with the virus each day. It takes a while for a person to go into hospital to sadly dying.
So an increase or a decrease in the number of people admitted to hospital would surely be a better indication of how well we are or are not doing in beating the virus by things like washing hands, social distancing and self isolating.
The number of deaths per day appears to be on a slightly downward trajectory.expressman33 wrote: ↑Mon Apr 27 2020 4:04pmI can't understand why the "active cases" is still increasing at such a high rate https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/uk/
Should those contracting the virus 3 weeks ago now be testing negative ?
We are about to find out...kevinchess1 wrote: ↑Mon Apr 27 2020 11:31pm'This is moment of maximum risk' says Boris...as he comes back to work
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